The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible
A world of narrowing options threatens to pit biofuels, forests and food production against each other
Since October, the world has seen a crescendo of grassroots protests around climate change, especially in western Europe and North America
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/ 10 December 2011
A draft global pact on climate change has boosted UN talks, already deep into overtime, but negotiators are worried it’s a little too late.
Climate talks in Durban are on track to help poor and vulnerable nations deal with increasingly fierce heatwaves, storms and drought.
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/ 1 November 2011
Scientists have entered a new path for regenerative medicine by altering age-worn cells in people over 90 into rejuvenated stem cells.
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/ 16 October 2011
A study shows that climate change is reducing the size of many animals and plants, including some which supply nutrition for over a billion people.
A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven to be as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting infectious diseases.
New talks on global warming have ended with the UN climate boss calling on leaders to resolve the fate of the Kyoto Protocol before the Durban summit.
Cellphone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use SMSing and hands-free devices to reduce exposure.
The UN wildlife trade body slapped down a trio of proposals on Tuesday to oversee cross-border commerce for sharks threatened with extinction.
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/ 7 December 2009
Negotiators and top scientists at UN climate talks on Monday slammed the theft of emails from experts at a British university.
UN climate talks in Bangkok are the most constructive since the 2007 launch of negotiations, the climate chief said on Wednesday.
More than a half-a-dozen newspapers in the United States and Europe have gone "web only" in the past year in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.
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/ 12 February 2008
By mid-century, getting it on with an electronic femme fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape, predicts David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of <i>Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations</i>.